And then she was branded a witch and feared and revered for her witchly powers because it seems pretty fucking stupid to believe someone truly has strange and dangerous powers and immediately threaten their life.

Later witch hunts were just ways to turn mob violence against specific individuals who the original accusers didn’t actually believe were witches but wanted to kill.

Hey leave the boulder’s extended family out of this.

Lol this comment thread gets pretty intense.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s decent entertainment. It’s just disconnected from any kind of scientific or technical reality and a part of me is rolling my eyes for a lot of it. And maybe a bit frustrated because I like thinking about things and analyzing and problem solving. I prefer hard magic systems over soft magic ones because there’s no point in thinking about soft magic systems because they just do whatever the plot calls for when it calls for it while hard magic systems have to build up to it and need to be clever to surprise viewers.

Tony uses a soft technology system that defies thought.

Stage 9: the cancer has become sentient.

Combined with running to become the first extreme sport.

Yeah, that’s my thought, though I have a kid. Doesn’t really matter if I just want to rent one to have fun driving for a bit (other than if she’d find it cool to ride in one). Would be fun for a bit and then a huge liability to own one. Especially with how much attention they’d get. You’d get random butt prints from assholes taking pictures with it, not to mention some others driving nearby will get more aggressive when they see what you’re driving, making accidents more likely. Not to mention everything about it will be very expensive.

And, at least based on video games, you’d barely ever get out of 1st or 2nd gear in normal driving unless you want to risk getting it seized (or worse) for excessive speeding.

Also, make one mistake with the throttle and a video of you spinning into a curb or something could go viral if it’s one of the rear drive supercars.

Yeah, Tony was capable of doing whatever the writers wrote him to be capable of, just like every other fictional character. And the writers wrote him doing it in a manner similar to the “programming” in Swordfish or the tech work in NCIS (or whatever show it was that had multiple people typing on one keyboard at the same time). As in difficult to tell if they had any understanding of it at all, sensationalised it for entertainment purposes, deliberately made it unlike any real programming to troll people who do understand programming, or some combination of all those.

MCU science might as well just be another school of magic. Especially when Tony’s suit could shapeshift and convert between matter and energy because of some quantum mumbo jumbo. He just cast a quantum spell on it.

Also every movie had multiple impacts in that iron suit that should have been worse for him than most car crashes.

Abuse of authority. A just legal system would have mechanisms that trigger audits and reviews of all individuals involved when a certain threshold of dismissals is exceeded. It should also make those incorrectly caught up in the process whole when it’s determined that there’s no real case against them.

I’m so tired of the obvious bad photoshops. Like you couldn’t even be bothered to just use the product and take photos of that and instead just paste it into different contexts? Probably means the product wasn’t treated for obvious flaws, maybe even deliberately because then it puts people back on the market when it breaks immediately or is a pain in the ass to use.

I’d like to see a store that curates their products, including retesting after something has been on the shelves because I know some opportunistic assholes will present a good product at first but then silently replace it with a cheaper version if they can get away with it.

The profit motive produces junk. I want a world with an excellence motive.

That’s like calling all sex “doggy style”.

It made it obvious how government officials will either talk out of their asses or straight up lie. Like telling people everything is fine, go on vacation for spring break, then we’re in lockdown by the middle of spring break (when it was clear that it was a big deal in south Korea and Italy already).

Or repeating “there’s no evidence of it being airborne” long after it was clear that it was airborne.

Plus finding out the science of how particles move in the air medicine was using was decades behind the cutting edge and still believed it was based on the mass of the particle when airplanes existed that could remain airborne well over that “max mass”.

And that’s not even going into Trump’s bullshit.

Or a reduction in savings.

Edit: though it is more complex than that because the banks can reloan the money as others put it into their savings.

Even if you assume the price of the property doesn’t change, it comes down to whether the interest on the mortgage plus property taxes and other fees is more or less than the rental amount (plus any other fees).

Though if the price goes up, even that might not matter. That said, I do hope the housing situation improves, which would realistically involve prices going down instead of up.

Inflation isn’t just a function of unemployment. Unemployment isn’t just a function of inflation.

It could be that with all else held constant, plotting the two against each other would give a similar curve to the left. Or it could be that the curve on the left was presented as an oversimplification of the big picture to manipulate policy or political will.

From my pov, the ratio of money supply minus savings to goods/services supply is the biggest factor for inflation, though there’s a time lag and prices are sticky downward.

Another exception is how sometimes increasing prices will increase sales rather than the other way around.

Also a lot of the time, a discount will get more attention than the price itself. Like $1000 with a 60% markdown ($400 final) might sell more than the same thing at $350 with 0% markdown.

Don’t run Linux, run the OG Unix. Don’t use a desktop, get a mainframe.

And suggest they go over it and optimize it before building.

Yeah, just treat them as thought experiments.

The comments saying “this is fake” are more annoying to me. Especially when they come with very weak reasoning, like “<something that occasionally happens> can’t happen, must be a fake!”

I’m one of the lucky ones with an 8086 that clearly saw the downgrade to 186.

AMD only just recently passed that with their 9000 series CPUs and Intel has only had better ones for a bit longer.